# The Horrors of Love This Substack's primary raison d'etre is the serial publication of my novel FRANKENRIDE, with one-off unrelated posts tackling current politics, (mostly) vintage pop culture, and whatever else gets me going that week. Page: Feed: --- ## [Woody Wooer and Woody Wooed](https://tomcarson.substack.com/p/woody-wooer-and-woody-wooed) _2026-08-31 · Tom Carson_ My two least favorite Presidents, divided and reunited in one swell foop. ## [You’re Breakin’ My Heart](https://tomcarson.substack.com/p/youre-breakin-my-heart) _2026-08-30 · Tom Carson_ The adventures of Huckleberry Ossian on Capitol Hill, summer 1973 ## [Our Nixon](https://tomcarson.substack.com/p/our-nixon-2e2) _2026-08-28 · Tom Carson_ My Village Voice obituary from 1994, now revised and slightly expanded. It got me a fan letter to the editor from Norman Mailer, who’d been my hero -- along with Pauline Kael -- back in high school. ## [American Woman: Forever Dolly](https://tomcarson.substack.com/p/american-woman-forever-dolly) _2026-08-27 · Tom Carson_ B.: January 19, 1946, near Little Pigeon River, Tennessee, U.S.A. D: Not before the end of time in any universe you can name, people. ## [The Bechdel Fallacies](https://tomcarson.substack.com/p/the-bechdel-fallacies) _2026-08-24 · Tom Carson_ Donald Trump as the fisheye lens through which we measure everybody else’s values, and other stories. ## [The Most Overrated General(s) in American History](https://tomcarson.substack.com/p/the-most-overrated-general-in-american) _2026-08-22 · Tom Carson_ Presenting Robert E. Lee, royal f\*ckup, with a curtain-raising cameo by George S. Patton ## [Pearl Necklace Harbor](https://tomcarson.substack.com/p/pearl-necklace-harbor) _2026-08-21 · Tom Carson_ Trump thinks he’s immune, but we know he’s a carrier ## [A Stone From Omaha Beach](https://tomcarson.substack.com/p/a-stone-from-omaha-beach) _2026-08-20 · Tom Carson_ Memories of Berlin and Normandy, 1966-2001 ## [It’s Hard in Here For A Pimp](https://tomcarson.substack.com/p/its-hard-in-here-for-a-pimp) _2026-08-20 · Tom Carson_ Trumpland, U.S.A,: Manifest Destry rides again ## [Frankenride 11: JerUSAlem](https://tomcarson.substack.com/p/frankenride-11-jerusalem) _2026-08-19 · Tom Carson_ O-D basketball’s Avignon Papacy, Kirk Ghentile’s exit from Egypt, goys’ favorite line in the Haggadah, and Craig’s first Halloween Frankenride. ## [Trade Bitcoin and Ethereum Today (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/MQPpovzQ5FUH) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell, and margin trade BTC and ETH with EUR, USD, CAD, GBP, or JPY. ## ["The ship? Great God, where is the ship?"](https://tomcarson.substack.com/p/the-ship-great-god-where-is-the-ship) _2026-08-16 · Tom Carson_ WWID: What would Ishmael do? Or Billy Budd, come to think of it? ## [Goodbye, Scrapper](https://tomcarson.substack.com/p/goodbye-scrapper) _2026-08-15 · Tom Carson_ Dave Marsh, 1950-2026 ## [Frankenride 10](https://tomcarson.substack.com/p/frankenride-10) _2026-08-14 · Tom Carson_ Huck Grimm's child, Helen Wabash's surprise fantasy, a Visiting Professorship for Craig at the New Orleans School of Government, and more. ## [Queen Mab's Concession Speech](https://tomcarson.substack.com/p/queen-mabs-concession-speech) _2026-08-12 · Tom Carson_ Clowns to the left of them, jokers to the right -- what's a good Democrat to do? ## [Drunk History in The Making](https://tomcarson.substack.com/p/drunk-history-in-the-making) _2026-08-10 · Tom Carson_ No, Trump isn't an alcoholic. He just might as well be, and that goes double for the Trumpified GOP ## [A Tale of Two Kentuckians](https://tomcarson.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-kentuckians) _2026-08-05 · Tom Carson_ Andy Beshear vs. Thomas Massie in 2028? What the heck, we've seen it before. ## [Odyssey, Oddy-Do](https://tomcarson.substack.com/p/odyssey-ody-do) _2026-07-31 · Tom Carson_ Christopher Nolan's fans Make the house of Atreus Great Again ## [Frankenride 9](https://tomcarson.substack.com/p/frankenride-9) _2026-07-29 · Tom Carson_ The return of Bob Dole, Craig's adventures in onanism with Hugh Heffalump's skin magazine, and more ## [Chuckles Bites The Dust](https://tomcarson.substack.com/p/chuckles-bites-the-dust) _2026-07-25 · Tom Carson_ What will Europe do without Americans? Oh, they'll be just fine.